Word: despairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after all, Mr. Lucas is unduly disturbed. The percentage of ignorance among our graduates is high enough t maintain a good working Republican majority. Though is not very catching,. even in the colleges, and a high proportion of the population is wholly immune. Let the Republican sage not despair. The Nation
Twenty-nine years ago the U. S. Congress was on the verge of approving a Nicaraguan canal. Frenchmen who wanted the U. S. to take the Panama site off their hands were in despair. Their promise of a $250,000 contribution to the G. O. P. campaign chest failed to produce results. Then suddenly Momotombo blew off. Wily Philippe Bunau-Varilla, French agent, sent a Nicaraguan postage stamp to each & every member of Congress. Up in the Senate rose Ohio's eloquent Marcus Alonzo Hanna who had not forgotten the $250,000 campaign promise. Between thumb & finger, high over...
...Manhattan last week, it was pride amply justified. The speaker was William Ludlow Chenery. It was six years since he had left the old New York Telegram-Mail to become editor of Collier's. In those six years the magazine has lifted itself from a quagmire of near-despair to perform what is now one of the marvels of U. S. publishing, a thwacking comeback. The regeneration was essentially an editorial process, planned by Editorial Director Thomas Hambley Beck, executed by Editor Chenery...
Philosophers, theologians, sociologists and others dealing with the affairs of men may derive despair from the uncertainty of past as well as of future. Physicists are for the present content. Statistical studies of average group action have helped them to probe marvelously deep into Nature...
Many a U. S. reader found to his surprise that Stephen Vincent Benét's John Brown's Body was readable and even thrilling, though a poem and a long one. If you are one who cannot stomach left-wing lyrics or metrically muted cries of despair, you may well find one or both of these narrative poems as agreeable a surprise as John Brown's Body...